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As sketched by Shaw, Higgins is catnip to women, capable of making them love him, generally at a safe platonic distance, while being anything but lovable. O'Toole has made a career of playing such disappointed idealists, sinning in the name of some principle. He triumphed in the role in...
School for Wives is the first in Moliere's trilogy of comic masterpieces. It opens with the imminent marriage of Arnolphe (Eric Oleson), an arrogant country squire and "raving paranoid." Obsessed with a fear of being ridiculed in his choice of a wife, Arnolphe has carefully planned his marriage over...
In the middle of the play, Arnolphe forces Agnes to read a book of maxims about marriage, her schooling in wifery. Instead of having Robin read the ditties as the script calls for, Sagal sends in a troupe of "Maxim Players" (Jennifer Litt, Will Provost, Fiona Tingley, and Manson Yew...
Almost the entire acting burden falls on the shoulders of Oleson, who carries the whole show Oleson displays an amazing sense of comic timing as well as an irresistible variety of goofy facial expressions. But Oleson's tour-de-force performance really takes off in the serious parts. He manages...
Leelee Groome, an attack on the Crimson and McBride's teammate at Agnes-Irwin, could sympathize with McBride's plight. She, too, had had to learn a new system and develop a broader and more refined approach to lacrosse.